Though Uakari's comment is brief I'm inclined to agree with it and will expand upon it.

While the analysis in this article is sound it may have behooved the authors to wait until after Motorola's announcements at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas during which they unveiled two very compelling devices: the Xoom and the Atrix.

Consensus among tech journalists is that Motorola was pretty much the star of CES this year especially because the Atrix is a true game-changer: an extremely powerful mobile phone with a 4" screen running Google Android that transforms into a desktop computer via a dock plugged into a monitor or a specially designed laptop style dock - it is the first device of it's kind to accelerate convergence to this logical end.

Motorola is a prime example of "creative destruction". It was in a high tech industry and was a leader in mobile telephones. Then Nokia quit making rubber boots and decided to enter the mobile telephone industry. The Apple and Google decided to enter the mobile telephone industry.

All these companies entered the industry because they thought the industry leader was doing a poor job. They all proved to be right. I doubt if Motorola will be around in another five or ten years. Interesting how Kodak, Polaroid, Xerox, IBM, Maytag, Whirlpool, and other US leading technology companies have lost their lead in their fields because of "creative destruction" wrought by entities outside their industry.